Covid-19: MOH to continue surveillance, active case detection after cases tested positive
Tuesday, 21 Apr 2020 06:32 PM MYTA medical worker takes a swab at a Covid-19 drive-through screening area at KPJ Ampang Puteri April 9, 2020. — Picture by Hari Anggara
Health Director-General Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said they had been collecting samples from patients with the three symptoms since February at the chosen clinics across the country. “To date we found 56 positive cases from 2,669 samples which makes up 2.1 per cent of the total SARI patients. Whereas the ILI detection we started since week nine of the epidemiologi which began on feb 23,” said Dr Noor Hisham today during his daily Covid-19 briefing in Putrajaya.
He revealed that they found eight cases positive for Covid-19 among the ILI patients from 1,280 samples.
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